Fly Fishing Slovenia | Day 2
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- Опубліковано 14 січ 2025
- This is the second day of Catherine and I's trip to Slovenia fishing for grayling, marble trout, brown trout and rainbow trout. We fished the Idrijca river near the town of Spodnja Idrija and caught fish on dry flies, nymphs, and streamers. This was an incredible trip and we cant wait to go back!
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Wow. What an awesome place to fly fish. My mother was Slovenian and I live in Australia. I'm traveling to Slovenia next year and have been trying to find some footage of the fly fishing there. Your video is great. Thanks for sharing. God Bless, Kraza.........
Thanks for feedback and glad that you enjoyed the video! If you ever get a chance to go fish there I would highly recommend it. Its one of our favorite trips we have ever done!
I have family in Slovenia, but grew up and live in Canada... I need to pack my flyrod when next I visit! One of the prettiest places on the planet.
Consider me jealous! If I had family in Slovenia I would visit twice a year! haha
Hvala puno Batko
I’m heading to the Soca valley on Sunday for 4 days fishing with a buddy…. Cannot wait and your videos are really fun way to get even more excited about the trip! 🇸🇮
Awesome man! You are gonna have a great time. If you're looking for a guide Ziga was incredible!
Living the dream! Beauty wherever you look. Nice footage. Regards from down-under in NZ.
Thanks for watching!
A great couple of videos. Looks like a fantastic area to fish. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it
thanks a lot, that was a perfect job! and warm greetings from the fly-fishers of Ukraine!
Glad you enjoyed it!
French nymphing is very effective... drift is really different from suspending indicator. I would say, in french we said "bouboule", suspending indicator can be more efficient in very special situations like deep pool or very long drift on large river. For sure the best competitors use french leader for a good reason... and now you know it. Tks you for having shared your trip ! 👌
Absolutely! Definitely a technique that I want to continue improving on! Our guide was really talented at it.
Superb over both videos, such an epic river to fish and you where both rewarded well thanks for the upload.
Thanks Marco! Glad you enjoyed it!
Super video! Awesome fish, beautiful country and a nice couple! I don't have any fly fishing videos from other countries on my channel yet...but wow..this would be a neat place to go! Tightlines!
Thanks! I noticed you've been watching as bunch of the videos so thanks for the support! If you get the chance, I would encourage you to visit Slovenia! it was incredible. You can do it for a pretty reasonable price as well. The most expensive part is the plane tickets
Go to Slovenia people. You won't regret it. Thanx for the video.
Nice fishing and very good place !👏
Thanks 👍
The fish are pristine! Glad you had such a good session on your travels 🎣👌🏻
Thank you!
I tought you took Ashley Williams (Victoria in HIMYM) with you to flyfish in Slovenia. Great video!
Looks cool - wish we had grayling here in NZ
They're a fun species to target
Stunningly beautiful! Are there a lot of guide services to choose from? How did you choose yours? Looks like yours did a good job. If you care to share the name that would be appreciated. Looks like you were there in October. Is there a lot of pressure on these rivers?
Thanks! The guide service we went with was "Fishing Guides Slovenia" and our guide was Žiga. Here's the link to their site fishing-guides-slovenia.com/
We were there in May and we looked around at a few of the other guide services before choosing ours. they just seemed very knowledgeable and professional which is why we ultimately chose them. Nothing wrong with any of the other guides we looked at, I'm sure they are great as well.
@@isaacness Thanks. I'll check them out. One further question, I saw you had a car. What city is this guide service close to? I would like to stick to trains/buses. Is a car necessary?
Wow.. what an adventure! So awesome to see that beautiful country and those beautiful trout. Thank you for sharing this!
Glad you liked it!
I saw part I and II and have to say I'm really impressed. I mean I'm going to fish in Slovenia this year for the first time and still was asking myself where to but now I know that Soca, Idrijca, so the Tomlin area is the best choice! If I can ask you about nymphing - because I want to tie something - how big tungstens did you use, what's the range? Of course, there is more questions but :D Thanks for sharing of your trip and keep fishing!
Hey there! most of the rivers we fished were pretty deep and fast so you definitely want flies that can get down quickly. We mostly fished scud patterns and czech style hares ear variants. Most of the scud flies were size #12-#16 hooks and most of the hares ear variants were larger, size #10-#14 hooks. I would go about as heavy as possible.
Hi, thank you very much for your helpful response! @@isaacness
Just watched both parts and am super impressed with fishing and the settings. Am seriously considering a trip to the area this Spring and would be grateful if you could share the guide's contact information and the time of year you were there. Great job on the video and thanks for taking us along for the ride!!
Glad you liked it Allen! we went out with a company called Fishing Guides Slovenia, our guide was named Žiga and he was great. Here's the link to their site fishing-guides-slovenia.com/
We fished here in the beginning of May but the weather was unusually warm for this time of year. the conditions we had are probably closer to normal weather in early June. I would highly recommend this trip for anyone who likes to fish
@@isaacness Thanks so much for the info and the timely response!!
Absolutely! glad I could help. Let me know if you end up going. I'd be happy to share more info about what we did, where we stayed, etc.
What flyrods are u guys using? Brand, class? Geat video?
Thanks! the rods we were using here were a Sage response 590-4, a Sage pulse 790-4, and our guide let us use his Sage ESN 3106-4. I'm not sponsored by any companies, nor do I have a serious preference for any rod brand in particular. I have a lot of Sage rods because I used to guide and my shop had the Farbanks pro deal so they were a good price.
Outstanding video and beautiful fish! Got me to subscribe after watching day 1!
Did you bring your own rods/waders or were they provided by the guides? I suspect you were using a 5 wgt.? I've been lucky to travel overseas quite a bit but not to fly fish, and you've convinced me to go to Slovenia. Just gorgeous. Thanks
Hey Tom, thanks for the kind words and for the subscription! You will not regret going to Slovenia, it was our favorite place we have been. In terms of rods, 5 weights will be perfect. Just as a heads up, lots of guides prefer to french/czech nymph since many of the rivers only allow single fly, no split shot, and no suspension indicators so if you are familiar with that style of fishing and have a European nymphing rod you may want to bring that along as well! Let me know if you start planning your trip, I would be happy to send more information about our guides, lodging, favorite restaurants, etc!
What's the regulations in general about fishing there? Is only fly-fishing allowed or could I use BFS there? What's the costs for purchasing a fishing license there?
All of the regulations vary from river to river and even sometimes from one stretch of a river to another. to be honest with you I'm really not sure if conventional gear is allowed or not on the rivers we fished. We only used fly rods and only saw other anglers using fly rods so I would assume it is fly only. the fishing licenses ranged from 40-100 Euros per person per day which got you access to a specific fishing clubs stretch of river.
@@isaacness Thanks for sharing!
what’s your name the Revier ?
This is the Idrijca!
Hope you enjoyed! If you haven't seen part 1, check it out here: ua-cam.com/video/t6XmBH6lX8I/v-deo.html
The guide service we went with was "Fishing Guides Slovenia" and our guide was Žiga. Here's the link to their site fishing-guides-slovenia.com/
bajkowa sceneria , to jest raj
Ziga pleeeaseee
Palming a reel with a good drag system…dumb…a great way to loose big fish…nice steam…
Plenty of fishes of hatchery issue. 🙄
Slovenia is paradise; but the managment of the rivers is questionable ... Big fishes in the holes, dodgy fins etc...
Visit their hatcherys, you will understand
The fishing in this country manage as big buisness since a long time. Native trouts is a lost a long time. It's sad 🙁
Interesting perspective! Most of the fish we caught seemed very healthy and we found plenty of quality marble trout in the Soča. That's just my experience from two days of fishing there so I'm sure I have a limited view on the matter.
@@isaacness
30 years ago the marble had almost disappeared from the Soca. The population was made of grayling, rainbow and brown, brown/marble cross.
brown was introduced in the 1930s or 1940s and eventually replaced the original marble. With also the crossing that was possible between the two species. But not possible with rainbows
In 20 years, by dint of releasing fish from fish farms, the leaders have succeeded in reversing the process. This is to say the production power of their fish farms. Slovenia has been a forerunner in the artificial reproduction of grayling since the 1950s. Their fish farms are models of "performance" both in terms of the quality of the fish produced, so that it is very difficult to make a difference with the wild when you do not " the eye" or habit.
I fished Slovenia 30 years ago, and a friend fished it 40 years ago.
There have always been a lot of fish from fish farms, but the 2000s were catastrophic, like 2003 (big drought) when fish were released into the holes to keep fishermen on the banks of the rivers.
Native fish now only exist in small rivers, such as the Radovna, the Sora etc...
Believe my experience, some of your rainbows caught in Idrija are not natural!
But any introduction of fish should be completely stopped. We would probably see less big fish, and therefore attractive for the "tourist" (I hate this term for the fisherman) because these big rainbows, even a river like the Idrijca cannot produce a lot, or very exceptionally. Today there is in all the holes...
once a French fishing magazine write that Slovenia was a paradise lost; I believe that's the truth. Even if efforts are made for cel to come back in order, pure wild fish hardly exist any more in the famous rivers.
sorry for breaking your dream. It remains a wonderful country, with wonderful people.
Thanks for sharing all the knowledge and history! you obviously have a lot of expertise on the fisheries of Slovenia. It would have been really cool to have experienced them prior to the commercialization you are referencing.
@@isaacness
fishing in slovenia, even when it was part of yugoslavia, fishing was always expensive. It has long been a source of money for the country. Just compare the price of a day of fishing on the Soca or the Unec in relation to the basic Slovenian salary.
I think there are fishermen who ask to have these big fish, without worrying about the origin; wild or not...
when they should be the first to ask to preserve the native fishs from the introduction of fishs from fish farms which, whatever their quality, can never have the character of a fish born in the river. The "breeds" of trout have been built for millennia by adapting to their natural environment and their specificities which are unique to each river. all this is destroyed by the implantation of fish from fish farming and released into the river even small !
Fisheries managers should focus mainly on the preservation of natural and wild fish and especially stop putting fish from fish farms.
what’s your name the Revier ?
This was the Idrija River!
@@isaacness thanks